Sunday 9 March 2008

I believe

I had a fun driving lesson earlier today, taking the Hertford route to Ware and back with my brother, the fact it was a twilight drive on the return made it especially interesting, as I took country roads I could see literally nothing unless I had full beams on, which made for some exciting high speed corners.

As for the rest of my time, I've had a bit of a Matrix weekend. I downloaded the trilogy as it's been a while since I've seen it, and I think I've only seen the sequels once.
The first film is still fantastic, simply a brilliantly told science fiction story, also very well directed, even if it is laughably obvious how influenced by certain anime titles it is.
The second two films, not so much, especially the third one. I hate it when people absolutely slam them simply because they were expecting something as revolutionary as the first again, as that was obviously never going to happen. But they do seem to leave out almost everything that made the first film what it was, and the third film is so painfully contrived it did make me wince a little.
Still, you've got to love it all if only for the fact it gave birth to The Animatrix, a testament to film making. If you watch either Beyond, A Detective Story, Kid's Story, Program or The Second Renaissance and don't appreciate any of the them for the incredible works of art, direction, cinematography and storytelling that they are, then you might as well kill yourself right now, because your life has no purpose.

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